Synonyms:
elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged
Meaning: drawn out or made longer spatially; "Picasso's elongated Don Quixote"; "lengthened skirts are fashionable this year"; "the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes"; "a prolonged black line across the page"
Synonyms:
elongate, elongated
Meaning: having notably more length than width; being long and slender; "an elongate tail tapering to a point"; "the old man's gaunt and elongated frame"
Usage examples
Whether elongated iron bullets would succeed, remains to be Tried.
In the clarid gold of the platform I saw her fez and corals reflected as an elongated blotch of florid red.
It is a half-bred Persian Cat, and its eyes are perfectly blue, with round pupils, not elongated, as those of Cats usually are.
The patch on the screen was not a round disk, as it would have been without the prism, but was an elongated oval and was coloured at its extremities.
Round and round the two bodies went, pulling each other into tremendously elongated or prolate shapes, and so they might have gone on for a long time.
Such, in brief, was the terrifying creature which now elongated its neck, and, over the top step of the porch, bent a calculating scrutiny upon the wistful and slumberous Duke.
As I am informed by Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys, the sole external difference between the sexes consists in the shell sometimes differing a little in form; for instance, the shell of the male periwinkle (Littorina littorea) is narrower and has a more elongated spire than that of the female.